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Yes, FreeBSD these days does not really have any unique selling point. Anything you can do on FreeBSD, you can do on Linux. But you can also do them on FreeBSD,
by krylon 4y ago
Yes, FreeBSD these days does not really have any unique selling point. Anything you can do on FreeBSD, you can do on Linux. But you can also do them on FreeBSD, and usually do them well.
But having some variety is good thing in itself, IMHO. I recall some major DNS company making a point of always running a mixture of various hardware/OS platforms to ensure that a problem with a particular configuration would not take down the entire site. (This is a bigger issue, too - on the server and desktop, you basically have the choice between Windows and some variant of Unix[0]. There are a few alternatives on the server, OS/400, OpenVMS, z/OS, etc., but those are pretty niche.)
- smm11 4y agoDiversification is the key here, but not so much when your last failsafe has one expert on earth and they're 5000 miles away.